Oxbow Western Timothy Hay Small Animal Food

I was always happy with this product until the past few months. I’ll get a box of hay that’s beautiful and then the next one will be similar to two inch grass clippings and dusty. 3 of the last 6 boxes of Oxbow have been this way. Not the fault of Chewy, but have written to Oxbow. Be careful as twice nice I had young kits develop blocked tear ducts from the dust in the hay.

Although the hay was fresh and good quality, my female guinea pig is not a fan of the thick stems. She prefers the softer part of the hay and ends up using the thicker stems for bedding. We are still in search of the hay she likes so will not purchase this again. My male guinea pig does like it though, reason I still gave it 4 stars. My biggest complaint is all the thick stems. Even my male won't always eat them and it gets left behind in his cage.

I normally get pretty good hay from Oxbow. The last batch was kind of thick and sharp, but at least it was green and had some heads. The batch I just received is not usable. They are all thin, mostly broken pieces and at least 50% is brown dead hay and I found strings in it. I am now left with a brand new, expensive box of hay and trying to find something to replace it with ASAP. I usually buy the 9lb. boxes.

I decided to give this a try because it looked like the better deal. It looked like I was going to get 398 ounces of hay for $52, that comes out to about .13 per ounce. However, when I got the hay a lot of it was brown. It did include a pink note as stated by other reviewers basically saying that they don’t inspect the larger supplies as well as the smaller ones. That was nice that they included the note but basically they are acknowledging and already excusing themselves for giving you a bad product. I thought to myself how bad can it be. Well it’s worst than I thought. Basically I would say at least if not more of 1/3 of hay is brown. So if you make the calculations, you are technically I decided to give this a try because it looked like the better deal. It looked like I was going to get 398 ounces of hay for $52, that comes out to about .13 per ounce. However, when I got the hay a lot of it was brown. It did include a pink note as stated by other reviewers basically saying that they don’t inspect the larger supplies as well as the smaller ones. That was nice that they included the note but basically they are acknowledging and already excusing themselves for giving you a bad product. I thought to myself how bad can it be. Well it’s worst than I thought. Basically I would say at least if not more of 1/3 of hay is brown. So if you make the calculations, you are technically paying $52 for 265 (not 398) ounces of hay which calculates to .20 per ounce. So even though they show on writing that you pay .13 per ounce because of all the brown you are actually paying .7 cents more per ounce. Just a heads up. I will be trying out the 9lb box next in hopes thats better quality since its smaller supply they should be actually inspecting it better according to their pink note. Hoping I will actually get my monies worth at .15 to .17 per ounce depending on the deal. … more

I’ve been buying oxbow Timothy hay for a year now and most of the time the quality was great. However my last 2 purchase of the hay comes kind of bad. They are really soft most likely a 3rd cut. I don’t think this hay is good for my Guinea pigs’ digestive system — their poop are now clumped and soft. Since it’s been like this for my last two purchase, I may have to switch to another brand.

I have four rabbits who, I mainly feed hay and veggies. I do like the oxbow pellets, but it’s unneeded for them. They do well on there natural diet. I will occasionally feed pellets three times a week, either way my rabbits enjoy their hay very much. Only reason for four stars is the quality tends to change and it can be very dusty. Thanks :)

I normally have a decent experience with this hay, but not this time. My friend ordered a box of hay for me alongside her other pet supplies since I was not going to be ordering anything else, but there’s a lot of dead hay here that my bunny won’t even touch. The quality has dropped a lot since the last time I bought a box.

I'm not sure if it was due to the bulk hay or not but as soon as I got my 50lb box of hay a bunch of spiders kept popping up in my bunny room. One time I was filling my babies hay and a spider started crawling on the liter box my bun was sitting in! Gave me the creepy crawlys. I knew quality wouldn't be the best but the spiders! Not worth the creepy crawlys and will probably stick to smaller sizes from now on.... Love oxbow though, just wish I didn't have to fear a spider everytime I reached into the box :/

I've had no problem with low quality hay unlike some of the other reviews I see. The 3 guinea pigs eat this with no issues. However, it is packaged so tightly that it makes it very hard to pull hay out of the box. I cut my hands often from trying to scrape enough hay out to put in my feeders.

Hello, I am very disappointed with my most recent order of 50lbs of Oxbow Hay. It is mostly full of powdered hay dust with a sprinkle of hay in between. My rabbits won’t go anywhere near it. I was hoping it was only the top layer. But the rest of the box is no better; if anything worse. I read few of the other reviews slamming the recent decline in quality of hay. Hoping you take note of this and rectify it soon.